IOSR-JEF   Volume-7 ~ Issue-4 ~ July-August 2016

Abstract: This study sought to explore the survival strategies undertaken by employees in non-remunerating organisations with specific focus on Chitungwiza Municipality whose workers continued reporting for work despite having spent two years without salaries. The study comprised a sample of fifty respondents who used self-completing questionnaires. The results revealed that Chitungwiza Municipality employees were undertaking various survival strategies during working hours, after work and during weekends such as piece jobs, informal trading, urban agriculture and tilling land in rural areas for those who have it. It was also noted that some employees who are breadwinners had involved other family members such as spouses and children who are ordinarily their dependents to help raise income for the family as informal traders of vegetables, second-hand clothes and other income generation initiatives..........

Keywords: Survival strategies, Non-remunerating organisations, Local authorities.

Abstract: Rapid growth of East Java Province supported by intensive interregional and international trade. Intensity of East Java Province interregional and international trade can be measured by Regional Product Mapping Model to identify leading products from variuos sectors. So researchers want to identify leading product mapping by SLQ and TBI indicators and analyse it using statistic descriptive to forecast specialization tendency in the future by analyse mean, median, modus and skewness of SLQ and TBI indicators.Leading export products of East Java and Indonesia is in Grup A (first quadrant). While at Grup B (second quadrant) there are export products which only lead in regional/province scale, but not in national scale because East Java export proportion of the products is relatively small when it compared to export value of the same product type which yield in all provinces nationally..........

Keywords: Regional product mapping, symmetric location quotient, trade balance index, descriptive statistics.

Abstract: This study examines the capital structure and firm performance evidence from Nigeria. The study employed a sample size of 100 non-financial firms of listed Nigerian companies in the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) for a period of 2010 to 2014. The annual financial statements have been examined using a panel data approach to analyse the empirical study. However, Tobin's Q and ROA are used as a proxy for the firm performance. It was found out that assets turnover and, tangible have a positive and significant relationship with Tobin's Q...........

Keywords: Agony Cost Theory, Capital Structure, Nonfinancial companies, Panel Data, Return of Asset, Tobin's Q.

Abstract: Each region has potentials and economic advantages that can be used as the source of its regional growth. The capability of each region to promote its own growth depends on its economic competitive advantages. This study is aimed to determine the centers of economic growth and regional development in West Halmahera Regency in the North Moluccas Province. The data used for analysis is secondary data which were collected using documentation method and internet browsing. The method of analysis used is scalogram analysis. The results show that among 9 subdistricts observed in this study, only 4 have the highest scores for socioeconomic infrastructures completeness...........

Keywords: Regional Development, New Economic Growth Poles, Scalogram Analysis, West Halmahera Regency.

Abstract:The flow of FDI into Indonesia is expected to be able to increase productivity which will ultimately have an impact on the increase in national income in the form of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as well as in the form of increased exports. In other words, in order to improve his performance in international trade, investment is absolutely necessary. There is a one-way relationship between FDI and export in which the value changes FDl affect changes in the value of exports. In the short term, the increase in the value of FDl causes a decrease in the value of exports. While in the long term, the increase in value will cause a rise in the value of exports. It is caused by the nature of FDI is an investment in long-term oriented so that the benefits to the economy, including export performance can be obtained in the long term

Keywords: Export; Import; Economy; Investment; Trade

Abstract: The importance of the optimum currency area theory is increased after creation of European Monetary Union. Before euro currency, the usage of American Dollar regardless OCA theory establishment was not analyzed in the same perspective of an economic policy to control exchange rate regimes. Reviews of researches based on the empirical analyses to provide an examination of the data between countries of Eurozone and Europe, are necessary to rethink the effects of joining a monetary union. Countries which want to enter EMU must fulfill OCA criteria's..........

Keywords: Model, approach, analysis, shock, exchange rate, volatility, pressure, trade integration, business cycle

Abstract: The study endeavors to estimate the food security status and identify the determinants of food security among households in Rangpur City Corporation of Rangpur Division, Bangladesh. It was found that about 65 per cent of the households are food insecure; utilizing expenditure method of estimating food security status. Further analysis utilizing the binary logistic regression method identified income and age of household head as consequential determinants of food security. They impact positively on food security, implicatively insinuating that gainfully employed and older household heads incline to be food secure. Policies that can engender good business environment for the Rangpur City Corporation poor are recommended, among others.

Keywords: Food Security, Household, Logistic Regression, Rangpur, Bangladesh..

Abstract: Achieving gender equality and empowering women is the fifth of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals that were approved by United Nations as the 2030 Global Agenda for Development. A growing amount of research that has been done shows that countries that fail to address gender barriers and empowerment of women are losing out in economic growth. In Kenya, efforts by the government towards women empowerment through opportunities such as Uwezo Fund, Women Enterprise Fund and other non-formal initiatives like Table Banking System have not borne much fruit. There exist many barriers to accessing these opportunities thus making the country lag behind in having women compete favorably with their male counterparts............

Keywords: Opportunities, constraints, women, development funds, and empowerment.